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instinctually i want to foia the faa for records, but that is an instinct from an earlier time, a time in which reason and correctness had a role in the world and it was useful to be clever

my flights to and from lga/ord were delayed for ~4 hours for weather, and yet there does not seem to be weather

“airlines are making up a thunderstorm” is stupid, conspiratorial, probably false usually but 2025 us breaking me/everyone and i won’t be surprised if it’s true

has no one invented a github for lawyers? 

i find sharing microsoft office docs with comments  so annoying

the chatter is that employees at these companies are treated well, but notably it seems like they aren't legally required to be treated well with this new financial trick, and they somewhat are, for ipos/sales

the scenario where you (an employee) build 'value' through hard work and then management find a way to sell out without cashing out anyone else is kind of a third rail / final straw of how the startup world works - there are some vague laws against stuff like reforming a company to screw over people

the scale/windsurf 'reverse acquihire the ceo' move is so weird. it made some sense during the biden admin (fear of khan enforcement) but nowadays, why, the current admin is not going to block mergers, is the theory really that the ceo and a few 'top engineers' are really 90% the value of companies?

We don't coddle our machines. In the event of a hardware or network failure, we automatically and aggressively fail over.

We exercise this ability daily, with no downtime, on customer databases as we ship changes and do version upgrades. In fact, no machine in our fleet lives longer than 29 days.

Preparing the community call for next week made me how efficient our 4-people team is shipping. And on top of this we are doing support, support, and other company administrative things.